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May 20, 2025  — 22 min read
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May 20, 2025  — 22 min read
From banks to battalions: SideWinder’s attacks on South Asia’s public sector
Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) uncovered a new SideWinder APT campaign targeting high-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
June 23, 2016  — 2 min read
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June 23, 2016  — 2 min read
Why Only You Should Be in Control of Your Data Protection
You, as an IT professional, always want everything to happen according to plan. You want to arrive at your desk in the morning, have your coffee, do your job and have everything go along smoothly. When you design a project, you strive to avoid complications, limitations, hurdles, and hassles.
June 09, 2016  — 2 min read
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June 09, 2016  — 2 min read
How to Protect Your User Data in a Multi-Device World
Right now, the average individual owns 3.64 devices — smartphones, tablets, and laptops — and the number will rise to 4.3 devices per person by 2020. At the same time, the average employee in the U.S. uses at least three devices per day for work activities. More than ever, your IT department is facing the reality of a multi-device world with employees constantly on the go and working anytime, anywhere on any device..
May 27, 2016  — 2 min read
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May 27, 2016  — 2 min read
Why You Should Backup Your IaaS Cloud
Cloud technologies are rapidly becoming a stable go-to option when it comes to implementing IT services and systems. The advantages are clear — no hardware to manage; no network to expand; no upfront costs; the ability to scale, and so on. This is why 78 percent of companies are either using or implementing cloud solutions.
May 24, 2016  — 3 min read
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May 24, 2016  — 3 min read
How to Speed Up Server Recovery Using a Virtual Environment
When a disaster strikes and the production servers go down, the most important device in your server room is actually the clock on the wall.
May 19, 2016  — 1 min read
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May 19, 2016  — 1 min read
Data Privacy, Backup and Security All in One Place
Most computer users understand the value of their personal and family data. Digital photos, videos, scanned financial and legal documents, homework, and email archives have a tremendous emotional and fiscal value. But most people still don’t fully understand the threats against their data from human error, failed hardware, malicious websites, and ransomware.
May 17, 2016  — 2 min read
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May 17, 2016  — 2 min read
On-Premise Backup Software or Cloud Backup as a Service? The Answer Is…
Complicated? Absolutely not. However, before we get to the answer, let me give you a real life example.
May 12, 2016  — 3 min read
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May 12, 2016  — 3 min read
Hidden Costs of Backup: Integrated Hardware Appliances
We are all too familiar with the concept of hidden costs. You work with a supplier and/or vendor, and it looks like their published pricing matches your budget – and everything goes well.
May 03, 2016  — 2 min read
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May 03, 2016  — 2 min read
IT Disaster Recovery Planning: Assessing the Risks
Your organization is starting a IT Disaster Recovery Planning project, and you have established your planning committee that includes key decision makers from various departments.
April 29, 2016  — 2 min read
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April 29, 2016  — 2 min read
Why Do You Really Need Backup?
For you, like for many IT professionals, backup is time-consuming, and very often, simply a boring task. Backup should be simple, right? Take your data and create a copy somewhere else in case you lose the original. Yet, you have to spend time and effort to find the best solution, implement it, manage and monitor it, report to your manager – and do numerous other things with backup storage, hardware and the network – all just to backup.
April 29, 2016  — 4 min read
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April 29, 2016  — 4 min read
Gartner Disaster Recovery As A Service Recognizes Acronis
April 27, 2016  — 2 min read
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April 27, 2016  — 2 min read
Why the FBI Advises Backup to Combat Ransomware!
Ransomware is the latest kind of malware: When a computer is infected via a hacked website or infected attachment, some or all of its data is encrypted and made unavailable — until the victim pays a ransom to the anonymous criminal. In other words, victims’ personal data can be held hostage to a new category of cybercrime.
April 19, 2016  — 3 min read
Acronis
April 19, 2016  — 3 min read
You Spoke, We Listened - Acronis True Image 2016 Update 2 Is Here!
Hello! My name is Gaidar Magdanurov. A few months ago I started as the new General Manager for the Acronis True Image business, and you will be reading more from me here in the future.